New PENNY DREADFUL Character Posters

A batch of character posters for the upcoming Showtime horror series have popped up online, giving us new looks at Eva Green as Vanessa Ives, Josh Hartnett as Ethan Chandler, Billie Piper as Brona Croft, and and Reeve Carney as Dorian Gray.

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By Mark Cassidy - 3/31/2014

In Penny Dreadful, some of literature's most famously terrifying characters -- including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, all brilliantly reimagined in a whole new light -- have become embroiled in Victorian London. The series stars Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down), Eva Green (Casino Royale) Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights and License to Kill), Reeve Carney (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), Rory Kinnear (Skyfall), Harry Treadaway (The Lone Ranger), Billie Piper (Doctor Who, Secret Diary of a Call Girl) and Danny Sapani (The Bill). The series is a frightening psychosexual thriller created, written and executive produced by three-time Oscar® nominee John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator) and executive produced by Logan's Desert Wolf Productions, along with Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, Call The Midwife), both of Neal Street. Of the eight episodes, the first two will be directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, who helmed The Orphanage and the acclaimed film, The Impossible starring Naomi Watts in her Oscar-nominated performance.

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What exactly makes any of you think this show will be crap? Is it the excellent cast? The writers? Sam Mendes producing? That fact that it's a Showtime series and they're always top notch? Or is it that the trailer was really cool, sexy and creepy?

Yeah it seems to have the right pieces this show, but even with Eva it's not lightin my desire.

Totally true about the girlfriend yoss n cipher - mines pretty rad with shows, but put on a movie she wants to watch - she'll be asleep in 10 minutes, and I'm wondering why the hell they call em romcoms when there's the complete opposite of comedy involved. It's like the anti-comedy or something. Ugh...